Drunken Karaoke in the Car
Posted on August 21, 2005 by Ching under Life.
Whie we were driving to Brian’s parents’ house I noticed that Brian was singing along to the radio. It was System of a Down’s “B.Y.O.B.” and he was barely mumbling the words under his breath.
“Come on. You can do better than that,” I goad Brian. “If you’re going to sing along, you need to sing out loud, like you mean it.” I tell him while making exaggerated hand gestures like hyped up crack fiend.
“What is wrong with you?”
“Nothing. I’m just saying. I can barely hear you when you sing along to the radio.”
On the way home from dinner at Brian’s parents’ house, Brian turned the radio to B98 (they play “the right mix” of soft rock and a good selection of oldies, which everyone knows I like). I thought that was really sweet and thoughtful because usually I have to beg and plead and often even fight him to change the station.
There was one day we ended up wrestling in the car while parked at a Sonic stall. He was trying to hold my arms down so I couldn’t change the radio station and I had my legs raised so that my big toe could push the button. We looked like a couple of boisterous five year olds, roughhousing inside the car. I bet the other people there thought we were a couple of nut jobs.
Anyway, this time, he voluntarily changed it to the station. It’s usually Delilah who’s on around this time of night. Her playlist consist of love longs and nothing else. Right when he switched to the station, Delilah was playing Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” – a karaoke classic.
I wait for my cue to sing along to my favorite part and, in typical Ching fashion, I belt out the words at the top of my lungs.
And I need you now tonight
And I need you more than ever
And if you’ll only hold me tight
We’ll be holding on forever
And we’ll only be making it right
Cause we’ll never be wrong together
We can take it to the end of the line
Your love is like a shadow on me all of the time
I don’t know what to do and I’m always in the dark
We’re living in a powder keg and giving off sparks
I really need you tonight
Forever’s gonna start tonightÂÂ
Picture me singing the words emphatically (because when I sing along, I really sing along; there’s no mumbling for this girl; and I could care less that I’m totally off key) complete with a fist next to my mouth as my imaginary microphone.
Brian just smiles and shakes his head as if to say, “You are hopeless.”
Reading his thoughts I respond “There’s nothing like drunken karaoke while riding in the car – especially when you are sober.”
We both just laugh at ourselves. Well, actually, we both laugh at me mostly because of how ridiculous I act.
Truthfully, I’m glad we don’t patronize karaoke bars because after a few drinks (my tolerance for alcohol isn’t what it used to be) I would probably be singing unabashedly off key in front of total strangers who would probably be thinking (or maybe even screaming; let’s hope they’re not hurling rotten tomatoes at me at the same time) “MAKE HER STOP!”
Think of Cameron Diaz in My Best Friend’s Wedding, only a hundred times worse. Awful. Awful. Awful.
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